One day you'll be
Old, Latin and proud
Old, Latin and proud
Old, Latin and proud
Old, Latin and proud

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About “Young, Latin and Proud”

“Young, Latin and Proud” is the first single from Private Energy, the fifth album from Roberto Carlos Lange (a.k.a. Helado Negro).

Upon release, Lange described the song as “a lullaby, a song of encouragement when you’re not really sure if you fit in with your surroundings. It rocks you to sleep in your space hammock and lets you embrace the weird and beautiful that is being Young, Latin and Proud.”

In Billboard’s profile of the music video, Lange even explained that his interest in creating this song “was always a private one, a possible dialog between me and a very young me, singing me to sleep after a long day, letting me know that it’s okay to be young, Latin and proud.”

What have the artists said about the song?

This is the first election that I’m voting in. I’ve never followed an election so closely. I feel the need to participate. I’m not voting for Trump. This song was written as a message of encouragement to myself. A me that was younger, growing up around all of the noise about who you should be or how you should be as a young man, a brown boy, a Latino person. It’s weird and can feel uncomfortable lots of times. The song falls in between whispering and shouting. It’s me telling myself that it’s okay to be all of these different things."